HDG Resources

Design and fabrication practices for optimizing the quality of HDG coatings. This guide contains more than 30 full-color illustrations.

This publication discusses why specifiers choose HDG steel beyond just corrosion protection.

This publication details hot-dip galvanized steels performance in various environments (atmosphere, water, soil, etc.).

Discusses the sustainability of hot-dip galvanized steel by examining both the environmental and economic impacts of utilizing the product.

This publication provides an overview of duplex coated applications/benefit and surface preparation procedures.

A guide for specifiers on design and communication best practices when specifying HDG steel with aesthetics requirements.

This guide covers the inspection procedures for HDG steel including a visual inspection guide with photo examples.

Best practices to ensure the highest quality, longest lasting HDG steel bridges.

Performance of HDG rebar in concrete along with information about design, specification, fabrication, and installation concerns.

Renewable energy sources provide sustainable, clean energy and likewise should be constructed from sustainable building materials such as hot-dip galvanized steel.

Explore the social benefits, economic savings, and environmental advantages of utilizing hot-dip galvanized steel to enhance your parking structure.

This publication explains how and why hot-dip galvanized fasteners provide superior protection for connections, as well as some design considerations when using galvanized fasteners.

Designed to assist specifiers with the selection of zinc coatings for corrosion protection by discussing the various zinc coatings and their characteristics.

Find a hot-dip galvanizer near you by using our Galvanizer Locator. Search by address, zip, state/province, or company name. Kettle sizes for all plants are listed.

Use the Life-cycle Cost Calculator to compare the initial and life-cycle cost of hot-dip galvanizing to other common coating systems.

Use the Zinc Coating Life Predictor to estimate the atmospheric corrosion rate of hot-dip galvanized (zinc) coatings in your area.

This is a tool used to confirm whether an article of known dimensions can be progressive-dip galvanized within a galvanizing kettle of known dimensions.

Use our TFM Chart to estimate when maintenance would be required to extend the life of HDG steel in typical North American environments.

This course will examine the hot-dip galvanizing process as well as other zinc coatings, and detail the intrinsic benefits galvanizing provides.

The course examines the hot-dip galvanizing process, ASTM specifications, design best practice, inspection, and preparing the galvanized surface for painting/powder coating.

This course examines the sustainable aspects of HDG including zinc and the environment, LEED, life-cycle assessment (LCA), life-cycle cost (LCC), environmental and economic case studies.

This seminar provides an overview about hot-dip galvanized steel and the synergistic benefits when coated with a paint or powder coating on top.

Understanding both the benefits and limitations of galvanized steel will assist bridge engineers in evaluating if hot-dip galvanizing is a solution for their bridge project.

This seminar provides an overview about hot-dip galvanized steel and how it can be used in in the transportation industry, from bridges and highways to mass transit applications.

This seminar will help specifiers understand the benefits of hot-dip galvanized rebar in concrete and provide design and specification information specific to hot-dip galvanized rebar.

This seminar provides an overview of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of incorporating hot-dip galvanized steel in parking structures.

This seminar provides an overview about hot-dip galvanized steel and how it can be used in power generation, transmission and distribution projects.

This seminar will introduce you to the basics of specifying, designing, and inspecting hot-dip galvanized steel with an emphasis on its use in the mining industry.

All of the steel in the Buffalo Creek Bridge is galvanized. We interviewed the County & Chief Engineer on the project to learn why they chose HDG steel.

When the city of Calgary was ready to refurbish the 7th Avenue Light Rail Transit (LRT) System learn how hot-dip galvanizing was the logical choice.

Learn how the Omaha Public Power District's (OPPD) decision to use HDG steel has protected its transmission lines since their installation in 1971.

Learn how hot-dip galvanized steel protects water wheels that are capable of removing 50,000 pounds of trash per day in this corrosive environment.